Grill or Chill #February

Description

What is Grill or Chill?

Grill or Chill (GoC), a monthly event, is a platform for startups to showcase products or get valuable feedback from domain experts/entrepreneurs. Each GoC ends with a networking session where you could mingle and connect with other entrepreneurs in a cozy environment.

Arzumy is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Kfit and Billplz, as well as Technical Advisor for REV Asia. A Malaysian ICT specialist with 12 years of experience in both the tech and telecommunication industries. He started his career in the cyber security industry but later on switched to focus on building products that people would love to use.

He is the founding team member of SAYS and GroupsMore (acquired by Groupon), rebuilt Friendster into social gaming (post-MOL acquisition), and developed SMS applications with over 100K paying subscribers under Articulation Online/Yo!Mobile.

Arzumy is active in the local tech startup community. A well-known speaker in various community driven events, he fills his free time helping out startups making technical decisions.

Dr. Lau Cher Han is a Data Scientist with a CTO background. He attended Queensland University of Technology, Australia to obtain his Ph.D. degree, which he researched and built an automatic news detection system to discover emerging news topics from Twitter, using machine learning model, text mining, sentiment analysis and organic metrics.

In 2004, Dr. Lau represented the country and emerged as the World Champion for Microsoft Excel, which he used to solve challenging data problems. Dr. Lau previously led the Academy team in MaGIC, which provides technical training from web development to mobile apps prototyping, aiming to grow local startups and accelerate their product development cycle.

Dr. Lau’s current focus is to promote the awareness of data science and train more full stack developers, which aims to alleviate the issue of talent shortage and to support the rapid growth of mobile and e-commerce industries.